Fence-picket fastener



(No Model.)

J. OAYLOR.

FENCE PIGKET FASTENER- I No. 542,585. Patented July 9, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JACOB CAYLOR, OF RIDGEVILLE, INDIANA.

FENCE-PICKET FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 542,585, dated July 9,1895.

' Application filed January 23, 1895- Serial No. 535,927. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB CAYLOR, of

Ridgeville, in the county of Randolph and lowing to be a full, clear,and exact descrip-' tion of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification.

My invention relates to an improved fencepicket fastener; and the objectof the same is to provide an improved device for securing pickets to thelead wires of fences.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction, which willbe hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of asection of a fence constructed in accordance with my improved plan. Fig.2 is a detailed view showing the steps in applying the holding devicewhereby the pickets are secured tothe wires. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectionof one picket.

A designates the lead-wires and B the pickets. I here show theintermediate wires secured to the pickets by ordinary staples C, so thatthe same may be stretched independently of the pickets and thus havetheir tension regulated without interfering with the main picket-holdingstrands, which are here shown to be the upper and lower strands of thefence. By this arrangement also one or more of the intermediate strandsmay be omitted, if desired, by simply withdrawing the staples and thusmaking the fence of such proportions that poultry or small stock maypass therethrough.

A fastener Djfor permanently securing the pickets to the strandsconsists of a wire which ,held from turning.

in blank is of U shape, as indicated in Fig. 2, and in applying the samethe said U-shaped wire is first placed across the strands near its loopend, as indicated, and then the strands between the arms of the loop, aswell as the cross-bar of the loop, are grasped by a pair of pliers E andthe loop end of the wire thus Each arm of the loop is coiled once, or,if desired, twice, about the strands leaving them pointing in the samedirection as regards the strands as they did before any twisting waseffected, the coils of the holders embedding themselves into the picketswhen the same are bound to the strands by twisting together thearrns ofthe loops around the pickets, as indicated. The loops are so formed asto size that they readily embrace the pickets to be used.

By the arrangement shown it will be readily seen that the cross-bar D ofthe loop serves to hold the latter from turning while the arms thereofare coiled about the strand.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

An improved fence-picket fastener comprising a U-shaped blank having itsloop twisted around the strand as shown, the arms D extended outwardfrom the strand with the picket positioned therebetween with its face inengagement with the convolutions of the portion of the loop twistedabout the strand to prevent vertical displacement, and the extremitiesof arms D twisted together around the picket, substantially as shown anddescribed. K

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB CAYLOR.

Witnesses:

N. W. FERGUSON, S. H. OAYLoR.

